Re: 2.6.1-mm1: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c link error

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:04:53AM +0100, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:40:03AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >> All 393 patches
> >> ...
> >> use-soft-float.patch
> >>  Use -msoft-float
> >> ...
> >
> >
> 
> I know. The version of sisfb in 2.6 vanilla is from stone-age. This is 
> has been fixed a long time ago in my current development version (and 
> will be in 2.4 as soon as Marcelo applies my patch which I sent him 
> about a week ago). For 2.6, using my current version requires James 
> Simmons's fbdev-patch because of low-level fbdev-interface changes (like 
> sysfs usage, etc).
> 
> The whole framebuffer stuff in 2.6 is ancient. (Look at the file dates.)

Until the framebuffer stuff in 2.6 gets updated, I'm suggesting the 
patch below to mark FB_SIS as BROKEN.

> Thomas

cu
Adrian

--- linux-2.6.1-mm2/drivers/video/Kconfig.old	2004-01-13 20:02:28.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.1-mm2/drivers/video/Kconfig	2004-01-13 20:02:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@
 
 config FB_SIS
 	tristate "SIS acceleration"
-	depends on FB && PCI
+	depends on FB && PCI && BROKEN
 	help
 	  This is the frame buffer device driver for the SiS 630 and 640 Super
 	  Socket 7 UMA cards.  Specs available at <http://www.sis.com.tw/>.
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